With vast open landscapes, high altitudes, and almost zero light pollution, Central Asia is emerging as one of the most ...
Dubai: On a cold winter evening, when the air is still and the sky feels especially clear, the stars often seem to shine a little brighter. It is not just imagination. Astronomers say winter really ...
Jeff Shi's departure will not suddenly turn Ki-Jana Hoever into Cafu, or Jorgen Strand Larsen into Erling Haaland. It makes ...
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, December 19We're getting ready to say goodbye to the summertime ...
On Friday, December 19, 2025, comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth. 3I/ATLAS can be found near the constellation Leo when it reaches its closest distance to Earth, overnight on ...
Unlike YR4, finding earlier observations of 3I/ATLAS to model where it might have come from was easier said than done. During its July 1, 2025 detection, the interstellar object happened to be moving ...
An artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc wobbles. In ...
The cometary cameraman was not the only one to snap the celestial snowball of late. On November 30, NASA’s Hubble Space ...
The Aurora Borealis over Monroe, Wis., on Nov. 11, during one of the strongest solar storms in decades. (Ross Harried/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The northern lights put on a stunning show across a ...
November presents a dynamic celestial calendar, with Mercury transitioning from the evening to morning sky and Venus's visibility diminishing throughout the month. The gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, ...
From the beginning of northern lights season to a handful of comets, autumn has been excellent for North American stargazers. The fun will continue into November, with Comet Lemmon continuing to shine ...
After sunset on Oct. 5, the bright waxing gibbous moon and Saturn will tango above the eastern horizon. The two will travel together through the sky all night. Neptune, which is visible only by ...